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Old Apr 14 2008, 12:36 PM
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i'll give you my reasoning behind that. feldman's music is quiet and slow, and often very long. he said that no pattern is better than the other one. he ascribed same musical value to any sound/pattern. plus he used a lot of aleatoric in his music, which to my mind is not so far from atonalism. so, essentially his slowness and aleatoric thinking/usage of patterns made me think of him as atonal minimalist. overall, i wanted to show how minimalism is very vast notion. and it has (the term) more of a philosophical value than purely musical. it's a style of thinking (in this case-musical) to me.
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